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Joan Acker

Professor Emerita 

Address:
727 PLC
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403 		Phone: (541) 346-5014
Fax: (541) 346-5026
Email: jacker@uoregon.edu

Joan Acker has been on the faculty at the University of Oregon since 1966. Her visiting professorships include three years at the Swedish Center for Working Life in Stockholm, Sweden and the Marie Jahoda International Guest Professorship at Bochum University, Bochum, Germany. She is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, a major feminist center for scholarship on gender and women. She has been awarded the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and the ASA Jessie Bernard Award for feminist scholarship.

Research Interests

  • class
  • women and work
  • gender and organizations
        

 

  • gender and the welfare state
  • feminist theory

Selected works

2002
"Jenseits von Geschlecht? Diskurse zur Zukunft der Arbeit in den USA." (Beyond Gender? Discourses on the Future of Work in the USA). In Karin Gottschall and Birgit Pfau-Effinger, eds., Zukunft der Arbeit und Geschlecht, Bremen: Leske +Budrich.

"The Continuing Necessity of ‘Class' in Feminist Thinking." In Axeli Knapp, ed., Social Theory and Feminism. (Forthcoming)

Welfare Restructuring, Work & Poverty with Sandra Morgen and Lisa Gonzales. Eugene, Oregon: Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

2001
"Oregon Families who Left Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) or Food Stamps: A Study of Economic and Family Well-Being from 1998 to 2000." With Sandra Morgen. Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of
Oregon.

2000
"Revisitng Class: Thinking from Gender, Race and Organizations." Social Politics, Summer. 192-214.

"Gendered Contradictions in Organizational Equity Projects." Organization, 7,4:625-32.

1999
"Gender and Organizations" in Janet Saltzman Chafetz, (ed.) The Handbook on Gender Sociology, New York: Plenum.

"Rewriting Class, Race, and Gender: Problems in Feminist Rethinking," in Judith Lorber, Beth Hess and Myra Marx Ferree (eds.), Revisioning Gender, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

1998
"The Future of Gender and Organizations," Gender, Work, and Organizations, 5,4:195-206.

1994
"Family, Gender, and Public Policy: The Swedish Case," in Catherine Berheide and Esther Ling Chow (eds.) The Family in Cross Cultural Perspective.  Albany: SUNY Press.

1993
"The Gender Regime in Swedish Banks".  Scandinavian Journal of Management. 10,2:117-130.

Education

Ph.D. -- Oregon